«تَبًّا لَهُ مِنْ خَادِعٍ مُذَاقِقٍ، أَصْفَرَ ذِي وَجْهَيْنِ كَالْمُنَافِقِ»
A curse upon this deceptive yellow coin with two faces, as though it were a hypocrite.
Yellow is a physical attribute of the coin, and two faces are a literal feature of minted money. Yet “like a hypocrite” transfers the image into moral satire. Reducing the line to numismatic description loses the sting; treating the coin as literally responsible for vice is equally misleading.
The poem deliberately reverses the prior praise of the dinar. Keep the simile marker—“as though”—so that the ethical judgment remains the poet's comparison rather than a statement of fact about metal.
Translation exercise
Separate the coin’s two physical sides from the simile “like a hypocrite.”